Podcasting

Hacks 4449 The worst thing about podcasting is also the best thing: the saturation of the medium. There are so many podcasts out there, and new ones springing up everyday, that finding shows you like can be a crapshoot. But there are so many sh...

Find out what directories are available and how to get signed up. Any reasonable podcatcher will have support for browsing OPML directories [Hack #45] of podcasts. Users don't need to search for new podcasts; they see new podcasts listed in the New ...

These categories are maintained by individuals just like you, and you can propose and maintain categories for topics that interest you. When the Internet first started, one of the biggest problems people faced was finding new pages. O'Reilly's Globa...

Find out how to plug and get plugged effectively. Marketing in the podcast world isn't as overt as it is in commercial radio, but it's definitely being done. With an increasing number of both listeners and podcasts, you need to grab listeners and ho...

Learn to use this effective advertising mechanism. Monetizing podcasting is a hot topic in the podcast community. People are trying to make money on all aspects of podcasting, including the hosting, software, networking, and audience itself. Podcast...

The best way to keep up on what's happening in the podcasting world is to be an active part of it. You should subscribe to these two message boards and mailing lists: iPodder (http://iPodder.org/) The iPodder site discussion board consists prim...

Podcasting's ability to target niche markets can be both a strength and a weakness. It's a strength because podcasting is uniquely able to provide content where it doesn't make economic sense for other forms of media to do so. It's a weakness because...